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The most horrendous consequence of depression is suicide. Of the 30,000 people who reportedly end their lives in the United States each year, most suffer from depression. However, since not all suicides are known (some are hidden due to stigma fears, and besides, many accidents may actually be the result of suicide), the number of actual […]

Most mothers go through a specific condition in the first or second week after giving birth. They feel sad, discouraged and anxious about their ability to care for a newborn baby. In part, hormones can be blamed, as well as lack of sleep. Your body is completely exhausted by pregnancy and childbirth, causing you to feel as if […]

The first attempts to study the content of the cognitive sphere were undertaken by A. Beck, who explored dreams, typical thoughts and fantasies of depressed patients in order to verify psychoanalytic theory and detect signs of repressed hostility. Instead, he found two main informative characteristics of the products being studied: a ) fixation on the topic of real or […]

Myth: Speaking about the desire to end his life, a person simply tries to attract attention. In fact: people who talk about suicide or who commit suicide attempts experience severe heartache. They try to make other people aware of this. Never ignore the threat of suicide and do not avoid the opportunity to discuss the difficulties encountered. […]

Underdevelopment of cognitive processes. Children with mental retardation, less than their normally developing peers, feel the need for cognition. The famous researcher Segen said: oligophrenic knows nothing, cannot and does not want. Their experience is extremely poor. They have an incomplete, sometimes distorted view of the surrounding reality. New material is absorbed only after numerous repetitions. 2 Perception often suffers from hearing loss, sight, speech […]

Emotional disorders in symptomatology are divided into productive and negative. Effective emotional disorders: The pathology of sensory tone includes emotional hyperesthestenia and hypesthesia. Emotional hyperesthesia – a violation of sensual tone, in which the usual strength of sensation and perception are accompanied by inadequate, heightened emotional coloring. Emotional hypesthesia is a violation of sensual tone, […]

Headache is a very common symptom for neurosis. According to our data, 58% of patients with neurosis complain of headaches, in particular, 60.2% of people suffering from neurasthenia, and 64.3% – with hysteria. Headache in 10% of patients with neurasthenia and 7% hysteria is the main complaint. Relatively less, this symptom is observed in obsessive-compulsive […]

In contrast to nosogenic depressions, reflecting the individual’s response to the disease (ie, psychogenic reaction), this group of affective disorders is implemented mainly at the pathophysiological level and reflects the central nervous system response to biochemical and physiological processes in the body associated with severe organic (neurological) or somatic diseases. When analyzing the conditions for […]

Classification of early childhood nervousness. In accordance with the results of research by domestic and foreign authors, the following three clinical and etiological types of neuropathy syndromes (early childhood nervousness) are distinguished: true or constitutional neuropathy syndrome, organic neuropathy syndrome and mixed neuropathy syndrome (constitutional encephalopathic ). G. E. Sukhareva (1955), depending on the prevalence […]

In modern psychiatry, it is considered that for the development of depression, as for most other mental disorders, the combined effect of three factors is required: biological, psychological and social ( O. Ergmann et al ., 1984; N. Bragina, T. Dobrokhotova 1988; Dinan T., 1994; Bardenstein L., 2000, etc.). This is a complex, so-called. ” […]